Brianna Przywozny
Brianna Przywozny
Originally from Freehold, New Jersey, Brianna Przywozny graduated summa cum laude with a BS in biomedical engineering from Columbia University in May 2025 and was the 2025 Richard Skalak Memorial Prize recipient for her outstanding engineering scholarship. She will graduate with an MS in biomedical engineering also from Columbia University in December 2025.
While at Columbia, she conducted research in the Biomaterials and Interface Tissue Engineering Laboratory, where she developed scaffolds for articular cartilage regeneration in osteoarthritis, modeled stress distributions at the osteochondral interface, and characterized the interfaces of the intervertebral disc. Additionally, she was a co-director of the Columbia Space Initiative’s Astrobiology Mission, where she led a team of undergraduate students in investigating the effects of simulated microgravity on biological systems. She designed and built an automated drug delivery device for use on a parabolic flight to assess the effects of microgravity on the human transcriptome. In addition to research, she was a peer tutor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and an Urban New York trip leader, organizing and leading groups of students and faculty on trips to cultural events and artistic performances across New York City.
Through the Marshall Scholarship, she hopes to pursue the DPhil in Engineering Science at the University of Oxford with a focus on tissue engineering and the bone-cartilage interface. She is honored to have been named a Marshall Scholar and looks forward to continuing her academic endeavors in the UK.